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2020 Meade County, SD Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Meade County, SD went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (South Dakota average 4.6 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 62 South Dakota counties and 2081st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with SD, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Meade County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 24, 2020 13:15 | September 24, 2020 13:30 | 15m | 781 | 195 |
| 2 | July 24, 2020 19:45 | July 29, 2020 17:30 | 4d 21h | 425 | 634 |
| 3 | May 12, 2020 20:30 | May 12, 2020 23:15 | 2h 45m | 409 | 377 |
| 4 | March 1, 2020 02:15 | March 25, 2020 14:45 | 24d 12h | 326 | 4,224 |
| 5 | August 25, 2020 14:00 | August 25, 2020 16:15 | 2h 15m | 318 | 291 |
| 6 | October 4, 2020 21:45 | October 15, 2020 12:30 | 10d 14h | 317 | 4,559 |
| 7 | June 28, 2020 23:30 | June 29, 2020 13:30 | 14h | 303 | 468 |
| 8 | July 21, 2020 01:15 | July 21, 2020 17:30 | 16h 15m | 175 | 500 |
| 9 | August 22, 2020 15:30 | August 22, 2020 18:00 | 2h 30m | 174 | 435 |
| 10 | June 29, 2020 15:45 | June 30, 2020 14:30 | 22h 45m | 160 | 448 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 17 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Meade County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Hills Power, Inc. | 2020 | 63 min | 0.56 | 30 min | 0.36 |
| Black Hills Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 3.7 hrs | 1.16 | 3.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| West River Electric Assn Inc | 2020 | 28 min | 0.36 | 28 min | 0.36 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grand Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butte Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Faith - (SD) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 79% of South Dakota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,286 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Meade County has data for 2016–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meade County, SD annual power outage report, 2020, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/south-dakota/meade-county